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I have been having a great time writing short posts on the characters of Woods Hole Mysteries -- an exercise first inspired by my publisher, Penmore Press who offered their authors a chance to post on the website about how they developed their characters. It was too interesting a project to do just one -- so I have been posting them here for your enjoyment.

05/22/2016

Sara Kauni; Tattoos, Airplanes, and Brilliant Ladies:Even secondary characters, like Sara, linger for long amounts of time in the writer’s imagination, and entire histories emerge, most of which never make it into fast-paced stories like mystery-thrillers. So, here’s a blink at Sara’s past. The Marquesas, a cluster of volcanic islands in French Polynesia, seemed a fitting birthplace for Sara as her fuse is short and she’s quick to erupt. Born to a French mother and a seaplane pilot father, she develops a fascination with airplanes. (The Bottom Dwellers,AEgir's Curse) >>>

Jessie McCabe; You've Come A Long Way, Baby: "In Ægir’s Curse, Jessie’s independent because she’s on her own without a family support system. She’s self-sufficient, though barely eking by as an impoverished graduate student. But she’s anything but confident; always looking over her shoulder for a pursuing demon, and conflicted by inner demons - personal, religious and sexual." (AEgir's Curse,The Bends) >>>

The Naming of Names: "With a name like Bill Bleach, the character had to have white skin, embarrassingly white … glow-in-the-dark white … skin that sunburned immediately under the bright Cape Cod sun. Worse, Bill would hate the water. After all, Cape Cod was a peninsula surrounded by the churning north Atlantic. Of course that meant sending Bill onto some tossing boat for the climax. (The Bends) >>>

Beth the Ferocious: "Though never active in the action of The Bottom Dwellers or The Bends, Bess looms dangerously in Maggie’s psyche where – in death – she still dominates and holds a place of both reverence and terror. Through Maggie’s memories, a vivid image of the deranged Bess emerges ... a gorgeous redheaded prostitute, who lies better, cheats better, shoplifts better and scores tricks better. Bess also has a taste for violence." (The Bottom Dwellers, AEgir's Curse, The Bends) >>>